Breakfast In Hong Kong
by: Wong Yee Lee
All people in the world know the importance of eating breakfast and
every country has their traditional breakfast for its people. English
people have their fried eggs, beans, bacon and mushrooms. Pakistan people
have their chapattis. Chinese people have their noodles or congee.
If someone happens to come to visit Hong Kong, one can have
any types of breakfast one desires.
Because of Hong Kong's inborn nature, one can find
typical congee shops everywhere in Hong Kong. Congee comes with different
ingredients. You can have congee with minced pork, with pig's stomach
and intestines, with thousand year old egg and salted pork meat, with
octopus and minced beef and pig's skin (people call it boat's congee
because it was used to be available only on boats), and many others.
It is one's choice to have a bowl of congee with a pair of deep fried
breads stuck together, or deep fried bread wrapped with rice noodles.
If you don't like to have anything deep fried for breakfast, you can
have congee with fried noodles only. This style of breakfast may seem
common among us but may be difficult to be accepted by someone who comes
from the west.
My husband is one of those who finds it difficult to understand why
people can have something so hot for breakfast in a place with the temperature
over 30 degree centigrade.
Of course if you don't fancy anything so traditionallly Chinese, one
can also find bread and butter in Hong Kong for breakfast.
To me, the best option is to have breakfast in one of those fast food
style Chinese tea restaurants. These places don't only offer tea. In
fact, people can enjoy all types of meals from early in the morning
till late in the night. Usually in these places, people can have many
combinations of breakfasts as you want. My most favourite would be the
combination of bread and butter, ham in omelette, a bowl of soup noodles
topped with Chinese salted vegetables and pork cubes, and finally completed
with a cup of either tea or coffee. This set of breakfast would cost
about HK$20. Then one can go to work feeling full with food of both
the western and Chinese styles.
As you might have known, efficiency and convenience are what Hong Kong
people value. Very often we don't have the time to enjoy a full meal
like that. In this case, we would forage inside the refrigerator and
see what we can find there in the morning. Fried rice left over from
the night before dinner may be one good choice for breakfast. Or anything
you think which may be too heavy to start the morning with can be acceptable
to us Hong Kong people. I still remember that one morning last month
after the Mid-autumn festival when every family was flooded with boxes
of mooncakes, a colleague of mine told me that she had eaten a whole
big mooncake for breakfast just because she had too many of them at
home. I am sure for those who know how fattening and sugary a mooncake
is can imagine what tolerance one must have if he can swallow a mooncake
in one go.
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